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Arise & Resist Conference Provides Forum for Coalition Building and Solidarity

January 28, 2025 Grace Cowell

By Grace Cowell On the eve of Trump’s inauguration, amidst dropping temperatures and a looming snowstorm, over 300 individuals representing a variety of activist groups in Massachusetts gathered at Roxbury Community College to prepare for the political climate of the next four years. Upon arrival, […]

Harvard Law School students protested a talk by Israeli consul general Dani Dayan, Nov. 13, 2019. Skip Schiel photo

Harvard Plans Crackdown on Palestinian Activism

January 24, 2025 Paul Shannon

by Paul Shannon Harvard’s Jan. 21 decision to impose the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’ (IHRA) definition of antisemitism on its campus underscores the University’s complete failure to rise to the occasion of opposing Israel’s crimes against humanity, its subservience to the Israeli lobby, and […]

Ceasefire Brings Pause in Gaza Genocide

January 22, 2025 Cole Harrison

Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) welcomes the 6-week ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas which went into effect on January 19. The agreement brings a pause in the devastating carnage in the Gaza Strip after 15 months of deadly Israeli attacks that killed at least 50,000 […]

Boy sitting in the rubble of a destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat, Gaza. © 2024 UNRWA Photo

Ceasefire Agreement Promises End to Gaza Genocide

January 15, 2025 Cole Harrison

On the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) today welcomes the news that Israel and Hamas have agreed to end the devastating carnage in the Gaza Strip after 15 months of deadly Israeli attacks that killed tens of thousands of […]

The Persistence of Racial Discrimination Through the Prison Industrial Complex

January 15, 2025 Grace Cowell

By Grace Cowell As wildfires rage across Southern California, it’s time to give a closer look into the history and roots of systemic racism surrounding a key group on the front lines fighting what have become the most destructive blazes in Los Angeles history: incarcerated […]

UN Human Rights Office Details Israel’s Assault on Gaza’s Hospitals

January 8, 2025 Lila Li

By Lila Li On December 31, 2024, the U.N. Human Rights Office (OHCHR) released its fourth thematic report, titled “Attacks on Hospitals During the Escalation of Hostilities in Gaza.” The 23-page document challenges prevailing Israeli narratives used to justify Israeli military operations against Gazan hospitals. […]

Bah Humbug Begone!

January 7, 2025 Doe West

by Rev Dr Doe West A Rallying Cry for Gratitude from an Indigenous woman in the US of A, 2024 Scrooge! Grinch! Stakes of holly plunging into hearts across the land! The antithesis of visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads! Arrg! The weeping, the […]